Judge F. X. Ransdell
(The Lake Providence Banner-Democrat, June 2, 1939)
Judge Francis Xavier Ransdell died in Baltimore, Maryland, on Tuesday, May 23rd, 1939, and his funeral was held in Lake Providence on Thursday morning, may 25th, from St. Patrick's Catholic Church at a solemn Requiem High Mass, which was sung by the pastor, Rev. Ftaher Francis J. Plutz, with Rev. Father John C. Vandegar of Tallulah as Deacon and Rev. Father N. F. Vandegar of Monroe as subdeacon. The music of the mass was sung by Rev. Fathers Martin Walsh and M. r. Gremillion. Four of his grandsons, Martin and Douglas Hamley, Ransdell Cox and David Voelker, served as altar boys at the requiem mass.
By virtue of official proclamation issued by the Mayor and in respect of his memory, all of the business houses closed from ten thirty o'clock through noon.
He served for thirty-seven years as Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Louisiana, comprising the Parishes of East Carroll, Madison and Tenses. He reached the age of seventy-five years in 1939 and retired under the age limitations of the Louisiana Constitution at the end of his term on January 1, 1937. He was born on February 11, 1861 near Alexandria in the Parish of Rapides, the son of John H. and Amanda Terrell Ransdell. He was educated in the public schools of his community and graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in May, 1887 from Union College of Schenectady, New York. The family treasures a paper, dated May 13, 1885, which reads as follows: "I hereby certify that F. X. Ransdell, after 24 years, has this day entered and registered his name in my office as a clerk and law student, with the purpose of studying law therein. (Signed), Alex J. Thomas, Schenectady, N.Y."
Following his graduation from Union College he returned to his adopted home in East Carroll Parish where he taught in the public school system with a first grade certificate issued Sept. 3, 1887 and signed by W. S. Brown and A. M. Ashbridge, and he taught in the old school building on the lake front where the home of Richard Bell now stands. During that time he continued his study of the law under his brother, Joseph E. Ransdell, later United State Senator from Louisiana. He was admitted to the practice of his profession by a Court examination in 1889 and he practiced with his brother in Lake Providence until 1892.
He was married to Miss Katie Davis, daughter of Edward H. and Julia Blackburn on November 1st, 1892. Following his marriage he removed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he practiced law for five years, returning to East Carroll Parish in 1897 to resume the practice of law in Lake Providence. He was elected District Judge in 1900 and was reelected seven consecutive times, four of said elections without opposition. His term of service on the bench stands as a record for Jurists in this State.
He went to John Hopkins in Baltimore on May 1st, for the purpose of taking medical treatment and shortly after a major operation was performed from which he did not recover.
Judge Ransdell is survived by his wife and four daughters, Mrs. J. Martain Hamley, Mrs. Frank Voelker and Mrs. Everett Pinkston of Lake Providence, and Mrs. Amanda R. Harman of Baltimore, Maryland; a brother, former Senator Jos. E. Ransdell and sister, Mrs. Emile T. Montgomery, both of Lake Providence and numerous nieces and nephews and other relatives throughout Louisiana and elsewhere.
Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, LA., 9 Jun 1939, Friday, Page 1
(The Lake Providence Banner-Democrat, June 2, 1939)
Judge Francis Xavier Ransdell died in Baltimore, Maryland, on Tuesday, May 23rd, 1939, and his funeral was held in Lake Providence on Thursday morning, may 25th, from St. Patrick's Catholic Church at a solemn Requiem High Mass, which was sung by the pastor, Rev. Ftaher Francis J. Plutz, with Rev. Father John C. Vandegar of Tallulah as Deacon and Rev. Father N. F. Vandegar of Monroe as subdeacon. The music of the mass was sung by Rev. Fathers Martin Walsh and M. r. Gremillion. Four of his grandsons, Martin and Douglas Hamley, Ransdell Cox and David Voelker, served as altar boys at the requiem mass.
By virtue of official proclamation issued by the Mayor and in respect of his memory, all of the business houses closed from ten thirty o'clock through noon.
He served for thirty-seven years as Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Louisiana, comprising the Parishes of East Carroll, Madison and Tenses. He reached the age of seventy-five years in 1939 and retired under the age limitations of the Louisiana Constitution at the end of his term on January 1, 1937. He was born on February 11, 1861 near Alexandria in the Parish of Rapides, the son of John H. and Amanda Terrell Ransdell. He was educated in the public schools of his community and graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in May, 1887 from Union College of Schenectady, New York. The family treasures a paper, dated May 13, 1885, which reads as follows: "I hereby certify that F. X. Ransdell, after 24 years, has this day entered and registered his name in my office as a clerk and law student, with the purpose of studying law therein. (Signed), Alex J. Thomas, Schenectady, N.Y."
Following his graduation from Union College he returned to his adopted home in East Carroll Parish where he taught in the public school system with a first grade certificate issued Sept. 3, 1887 and signed by W. S. Brown and A. M. Ashbridge, and he taught in the old school building on the lake front where the home of Richard Bell now stands. During that time he continued his study of the law under his brother, Joseph E. Ransdell, later United State Senator from Louisiana. He was admitted to the practice of his profession by a Court examination in 1889 and he practiced with his brother in Lake Providence until 1892.
He was married to Miss Katie Davis, daughter of Edward H. and Julia Blackburn on November 1st, 1892. Following his marriage he removed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he practiced law for five years, returning to East Carroll Parish in 1897 to resume the practice of law in Lake Providence. He was elected District Judge in 1900 and was reelected seven consecutive times, four of said elections without opposition. His term of service on the bench stands as a record for Jurists in this State.
He went to John Hopkins in Baltimore on May 1st, for the purpose of taking medical treatment and shortly after a major operation was performed from which he did not recover.
Judge Ransdell is survived by his wife and four daughters, Mrs. J. Martain Hamley, Mrs. Frank Voelker and Mrs. Everett Pinkston of Lake Providence, and Mrs. Amanda R. Harman of Baltimore, Maryland; a brother, former Senator Jos. E. Ransdell and sister, Mrs. Emile T. Montgomery, both of Lake Providence and numerous nieces and nephews and other relatives throughout Louisiana and elsewhere.
Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, LA., 9 Jun 1939, Friday, Page 1
Judge F. X. Ransdell
(The Lake Providence Banner-Democrat, June 2, 1939)
Judge Francis Xavier Ransdell died in Baltimore, Maryland, on Tuesday, May 23rd, 1939, and his funeral was held in Lake Providence on Thursday morning, may 25th, from St. Patrick's Catholic Church at a solemn Requiem High Mass, which was sung by the pastor, Rev. Ftaher Francis J. Plutz, with Rev. Father John C. Vandegar of Tallulah as Deacon and Rev. Father N. F. Vandegar of Monroe as subdeacon. The music of the mass was sung by Rev. Fathers Martin Walsh and M. r. Gremillion. Four of his grandsons, Martin and Douglas Hamley, Ransdell Cox and David Voelker, served as altar boys at the requiem mass.
By virtue of official proclamation issued by the Mayor and in respect of his memory, all of the business houses closed from ten thirty o'clock through noon.
He served for thirty-seven years as Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Louisiana, comprising the Parishes of East Carroll, Madison and Tenses. He reached the age of seventy-five years in 1939 and retired under the age limitations of the Louisiana Constitution at the end of his term on January 1, 1937. He was born on February 11, 1861 near Alexandria in the Parish of Rapides, the son of John H. and Amanda Terrell Ransdell. He was educated in the public schools of his community and graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in May, 1887 from Union College of Schenectady, New York. The family treasures a paper, dated May 13, 1885, which reads as follows: "I hereby certify that F. X. Ransdell, after 24 years, has this day entered and registered his name in my office as a clerk and law student, with the purpose of studying law therein. (Signed), Alex J. Thomas, Schenectady, N.Y."
Following his graduation from Union College he returned to his adopted home in East Carroll Parish where he taught in the public school system with a first grade certificate issued Sept. 3, 1887 and signed by W. S. Brown and A. M. Ashbridge, and he taught in the old school building on the lake front where the home of Richard Bell now stands. During that time he continued his study of the law under his brother, Joseph E. Ransdell, later United State Senator from Louisiana. He was admitted to the practice of his profession by a Court examination in 1889 and he practiced with his brother in Lake Providence until 1892.
He was married to Miss Katie Davis, daughter of Edward H. and Julia Blackburn on November 1st, 1892. Following his marriage he removed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he practiced law for five years, returning to East Carroll Parish in 1897 to resume the practice of law in Lake Providence. He was elected District Judge in 1900 and was reelected seven consecutive times, four of said elections without opposition. His term of service on the bench stands as a record for Jurists in this State.
He went to John Hopkins in Baltimore on May 1st, for the purpose of taking medical treatment and shortly after a major operation was performed from which he did not recover.
Judge Ransdell is survived by his wife and four daughters, Mrs. J. Martain Hamley, Mrs. Frank Voelker and Mrs. Everett Pinkston of Lake Providence, and Mrs. Amanda R. Harman of Baltimore, Maryland; a brother, former Senator Jos. E. Ransdell and sister, Mrs. Emile T. Montgomery, both of Lake Providence and numerous nieces and nephews and other relatives throughout Louisiana and elsewhere.
Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, LA., 9 Jun 1939, Friday, Page 1
(The Lake Providence Banner-Democrat, June 2, 1939)
Judge Francis Xavier Ransdell died in Baltimore, Maryland, on Tuesday, May 23rd, 1939, and his funeral was held in Lake Providence on Thursday morning, may 25th, from St. Patrick's Catholic Church at a solemn Requiem High Mass, which was sung by the pastor, Rev. Ftaher Francis J. Plutz, with Rev. Father John C. Vandegar of Tallulah as Deacon and Rev. Father N. F. Vandegar of Monroe as subdeacon. The music of the mass was sung by Rev. Fathers Martin Walsh and M. r. Gremillion. Four of his grandsons, Martin and Douglas Hamley, Ransdell Cox and David Voelker, served as altar boys at the requiem mass.
By virtue of official proclamation issued by the Mayor and in respect of his memory, all of the business houses closed from ten thirty o'clock through noon.
He served for thirty-seven years as Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Louisiana, comprising the Parishes of East Carroll, Madison and Tenses. He reached the age of seventy-five years in 1939 and retired under the age limitations of the Louisiana Constitution at the end of his term on January 1, 1937. He was born on February 11, 1861 near Alexandria in the Parish of Rapides, the son of John H. and Amanda Terrell Ransdell. He was educated in the public schools of his community and graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in May, 1887 from Union College of Schenectady, New York. The family treasures a paper, dated May 13, 1885, which reads as follows: "I hereby certify that F. X. Ransdell, after 24 years, has this day entered and registered his name in my office as a clerk and law student, with the purpose of studying law therein. (Signed), Alex J. Thomas, Schenectady, N.Y."
Following his graduation from Union College he returned to his adopted home in East Carroll Parish where he taught in the public school system with a first grade certificate issued Sept. 3, 1887 and signed by W. S. Brown and A. M. Ashbridge, and he taught in the old school building on the lake front where the home of Richard Bell now stands. During that time he continued his study of the law under his brother, Joseph E. Ransdell, later United State Senator from Louisiana. He was admitted to the practice of his profession by a Court examination in 1889 and he practiced with his brother in Lake Providence until 1892.
He was married to Miss Katie Davis, daughter of Edward H. and Julia Blackburn on November 1st, 1892. Following his marriage he removed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he practiced law for five years, returning to East Carroll Parish in 1897 to resume the practice of law in Lake Providence. He was elected District Judge in 1900 and was reelected seven consecutive times, four of said elections without opposition. His term of service on the bench stands as a record for Jurists in this State.
He went to John Hopkins in Baltimore on May 1st, for the purpose of taking medical treatment and shortly after a major operation was performed from which he did not recover.
Judge Ransdell is survived by his wife and four daughters, Mrs. J. Martain Hamley, Mrs. Frank Voelker and Mrs. Everett Pinkston of Lake Providence, and Mrs. Amanda R. Harman of Baltimore, Maryland; a brother, former Senator Jos. E. Ransdell and sister, Mrs. Emile T. Montgomery, both of Lake Providence and numerous nieces and nephews and other relatives throughout Louisiana and elsewhere.
Tensas Gazette, St. Joseph, LA., 9 Jun 1939, Friday, Page 1
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